One summer afternoon in Delhi, as the father lay in bed, his health in rapid decline, Manglik's sister Kalpana visited his bedside to read him a passage she had penned in a biography she was writing about him.
"Information has been received that he is a close friend of Picasso and is engaged in writing his biography".
Ike promptly invited the young man to his home in Gettysburg and entrusted Ambrose with the task of writing his biography.
Raymond Stock, a writer and translator, is writing a biography on Mahfouz.
They developed what she called a mentor relationship before she began researching and writing his biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
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While it's impossible to attribute all of Cobb's flaws to Stump's fabrications, Stump's portrayal of him as the most villainous figure in baseball history was accepted as fact for so long that it remains the dominant representation of him, said author Charles Leerhsen, who is researching and writing a biography of Cobb.
Jenny Uglow has done that difficult thing of writing a group biography that gives equal attention to all the main players, yet still manages to be something more than a patchwork.
For employers, writing a corporate biography for a newly hired executive with a brief tenure elsewhere requires a "a bit of finesse, " says Howard Polskin, a New York media consultant who has held senior communication roles at two Fortune 500 companies.
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But that may well be one reason why her biography, eight years in the writing, is the first comprehensive portrait of the artist since 1877.
She might have written the real man's biography, except that her trade is novel-writing and Cromwell is, as she says, "unbiographicable": We know a great deal about Cromwell the public man, mainly because his papers were seized and preserved before his execution.
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